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Children Writing Stories

Armstrong, Michael
Children Writing Stories
Here is a worthy successor to Ted Hughes' Poetry in the Making, the book that enabled me to gain the confidence to begin to find my own voice as a story teller. Children Writing Stories confirms that we all have a story to tell if we are enabled to develop enough self-belief. So much of our natural creativity is smothered during our school years. Teachers and children feel hemmed in by the strictures of a curriculum which simply does not allow...

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What about the Boys?

Martino / Meyenn, Bob / Martino, Wayne
What about the Boys?
* How can teachers address the challenge of educating boys for life in the 21st century?* What aspects of schooling are particularly problematic for boys?* How do issues of class, race and sexuality impact upon boys educational experiences?This edited collection brings together leading researchers from Australia, United Kingdom and the United States to explore issues of boys, schooling and masculinities within the context of the current concer...

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What Is History Teaching?: Language, Ideas and Meaning in...

Husbands, Christopher T.
What Is History Teaching?: Language, Ideas and Meaning in Learning about the Past
* How do pupils make sense of the past?* What is the relationship between the way historians construct interpretations of the past and the way pupils learn history in schools?This book draws together developments in a wide range of fields: in academic history, in the study of language and in classroom research on pupil learning, as the basis for a distinctive approach to the teaching and learning of history in school. Chris Husbands analyses f...

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Co-Ordinating Services for Included Children

Roaf, Caroline
Co-Ordinating Services for Included Children
* Why do children and young people fall 'through the net' and what can we learn from this?* How can joined up thinking be transformed into joined up action?* How might co-ordination overcome some of the current difficulties practitioners and policy makers face in providing and maintaining effective support networks for children and young people?This book argues that the study of inter-agency work has reached a critical point in its long histor...

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Challenging Knowledge

Delanty, Gerard / Delanty
Challenging Knowledge
For far too long, we have waited for a book that recorded the ideas of the modern university. Now, in Gerard Delanty's new book, we have it. Delanty has faithfully set out the views of the key thinkers and, in the process, has emerged with an idea of the university that is his. We are in his debt." Professor Ronald Barnett, University of London"Gerard Delanty is one of the most productive and thought-provoking social theorists currently writin...

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Art Therapy

Waller, Diane Elizabeth / Waller, Robert
Art Therapy
Presents new ideas in the theory and practice of art therapy, incorporating them into more established art therapy and pointing to future developments. The book concludes with an examination of the training of art therapists and a look at the future direction of research in the field.

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Understanding Social Control: Deviance, Crime and Social ...

Innes, Martin
Understanding Social Control: Deviance, Crime and Social Order
*Provides a clear, yet panoramic analysis of how the concept of social control has been used by different theoretical traditions in the social sciences.*Connects contemporary changes in areas such as policing, penal systems and surveillance, with wider and deeper changes in the constitution of society.*Employs empirical examples to illustrate key conceptual points.*Develops an innovative argument about the nature and scope of social control in...

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Understanding Modernisation in Criminal Justice

Senior, Paul / Crowther-Dowey, Chris
Understanding Modernisation in Criminal Justice
How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape of criminal justice policy? Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and moderniza...

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Learning Science Teaching: Developing a Professional Know...

Bishop, Keith / Denley, Paul
Learning Science Teaching: Developing a Professional Knowledge Base
Bishop and Denley in Learning Science Teaching have focused as much on good pedagogy as on the peculiarities of science teaching. It is for this reason that their book will be of value not only to trainees in education, but also to a range of professionals working in schools, Higher Education and, in particular, to those responsible for planning and delivering CPD. It is far more than a test for trainee teachers."Science Teacher Education"Any ...

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Higher Education and the Lifecourse

Slowey
Higher Education and the Lifecourse
key arguments for policy and practice for lifelong learning in higher education." Higher Education DigestAt the beginning of the 21st century it is increasingly clear to professionals at all levels of formal and informal education that we need to refresh the concept of lifelong learning. Most importantly, the concept needs to be expanded so that it is lifelong and lifewide, concerned not just with serial requirements of those already engaged, ...

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My Right to Play

Orr
My Right to Play
Robert Orr... has achieved the balance of evidenced-based practice with the integration of the concept of ordinariness. This work is a must for not only those working with children with an expressed extra special need, but also all nurses who work with people who have a learning disability." Helen Laverty, Health Lecturer, University of Nottingham "This is a slim, accessible and powerful read with a refreshing message... I strongly recommend t...

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Higher Education Pedagogies: A Capabilities Approach

Walker, Melanie
Higher Education Pedagogies: A Capabilities Approach
What does higher education learning and teaching enable students to do and to become? Which human capabilities are valued in higher education, and how do we identify them? How might the human capability approach lead to improved student learning, as well as to accomplished and ethical university teaching?This book sets out to generate new ways of reflecting ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to...

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Engaging Teachers

Gale, Trevor
Engaging Teachers
This is a useful, interesting and valuable work. The authors ask the difficult questions and attempt answers which, although complex, are written in an accessible and open manner. It deserves to be widely read." Educational ReviewEngaging Teachers makes a deliberate attempt to reclaim the education discourse captured by new right politics and connect it with a radical democratic agenda for schooling. On its agenda are education markets, policy...

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End of Masculinity

Macinnes, John / MacInnes
End of Masculinity
* Why does masculinity seem obvious yet prove impossible to define?* What has caused the erosion of men's power and will progress towards sexual equality continue?* How political is the personal?This book explains why both popular and academic commentators have found it impossible to define masculinity. It is because no such thing exists. Re-examining the ideas of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and Thomas Hobbes, the author shows that modern s...

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Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education

Green
Doctoral Study in Contemporary Higher Education
How can the full range of doctoral study in the UK be best described? What are the key features that are driving change to the system? What are the implications of current initiatives and the increasingly international context of research degree study?This book covers the differing kinds of doctorate award that exist currently and discusses critically issues that arise from the ways in which related forms of doctoral study are organized and as...

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Micro-Politics of Inclusive Education

Benjamin
Micro-Politics of Inclusive Education
This book is sustained and significant in its argument, complex in its analysis and highly original. It is extremely well written and a pleasure to read stylistically as well as sociologically." - Professor Sheila Riddell, Director, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow."Shereen Benjamin's work opens up new ways of thinking about learning difficulties. This beautifully written book explores the school lives and iden...

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Survival in Groups

Douglas, Tom
Survival in Groups
In his latest book, Tom Douglas turns his attention to the skills of group membership. While there is an extensive literature on basic groupwork practice, none of the existing books address the functions of groups exclusively from the viewpoint of members.Survival in Groups examines the influences and pressures which can exist in groups and explains what to look for in order to see these factors at work. It stresses the fact that the ability t...

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Action Research for Educational Change

Elliott, John
Action Research for Educational Change
This book is concerned with action research as a form of teacher professional development. In it, John Elliot traces the historical emergence and current significance of action research in schools. He examines action research as a "cultural innovation" with transformative possibilities for both the professional culture of teachers and teacher educators in academia and explores how action research can be a form of creative resistance to the tec...

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Every School a Great School: Realizing the Potential of S...

Hopkins, David
Every School a Great School: Realizing the Potential of System Leadership
Every school a great school' is not just a slogan, but an aspiration for the next stage of education reform, in which each student has the opportunity to reach their full potential. The book argues that, for 'every school a great school' to become a reality, requires a move from individual school improvement efforts and short term objectives to a sustainable system-wide response that seeks to re-establish a balance between national prescriptio...

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INVESTIGATING GENDER

Francis / Francis, Becky / Skelton, Christine
INVESTIGATING GENDER
This is an excellent account of the dilemmas and opportunities facing contemporary theories of gender and education. The book brings together some of the most sophisticated researchers in the field to demonstrate the power, the mysteries and the complexities of the concept of identity. The case for a new approach to gender theory is convincing and exciting. Teachers, academics and policy makers need to recognise the value of such contemporary ...

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